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Seven people are killed in the US after a tornado sweeps through a mobile home park in a North Carolina town.
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Democrats choose Nancy Pelosi to be the first female speaker of the US House of Representatives.
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NepalThe US says Nepal's Maoists will stay listed as terrorists despite peace moves, a senior US diplomat says.
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IraqA US marine receives an 18-month sentence for his part in killing an Iraqi civilian, under a plea bargain.
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AfghanistanA top American defence official warns that the level of violence in Afghanistan will continue to increase.
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GuatemalaCentral American leaders sign an anti-corruption pact as a summit begins in Guatemala.
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Iran, IraqThe US government confirms its willingness, in principle, to discuss the conflict in Iraq with Iran.
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IraqA US Army soldier pleads guilty to raping an Iraqi teenager and helping kill her and her family.
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Disgraced US lobbyist Jack Abramoff begins serving a 70-month prison sentence for conspiracy and fraud.
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RussiaPresident George W Bush and Russia's President Putin are to sign an agreement on Russia's WTO membership bid.
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MexicoMexico's congress backs a seven-year-old boy's plea to pressure the US against deporting his mother.
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US Airways makes a $8bn offer to merge with Delta Air Lines, creating one of the world's largest airlines.
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NepalA senior US official is to visit Nepal - the first such trip by a foreign dignitary since last week's landmark peace deal.
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US car firms tell President Bush they need help to boost their competitiveness but are not seeking financial aid.
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IranIran's president says that his country is willing to enter into a dialogue with the US - if it changes its attitude.
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IraqTony Blair tells the US inquiry into future policy options that Mid East peace is crucial to the future of Iraq.
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GermanyA lawyers' group asks Germany to sue former US defence chief Donald Rumsfeld over alleged prisoner abuse.
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Ex-New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani takes a key step towards running for the 2008 US presidency.
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Pagans in the US demand the right to have their five-pointed symbol placed on military gravestones.
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VietnamThe US drops Vietnam from its list of countries violating religious freedom, but a trade bill is held up in Congress.
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Iran, Iraq, 
Syria, 
United KingdomThe US and UK say Iran and Syria could play a role in stabilising Iraq, but they must stop supporting terror first.
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Microsoft's Zune music player, a rival to Apple's iPod, goes on sale in the US, receiving mixed reviews.
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ColombiaColombia's President Alvaro Uribe lobbies the US Congress to pass a free trade deal with his country.
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AfghanistanUS and Afghan forces say they have captured a high-ranking al-Qaeda figure in eastern Afghanistan.
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AfghanistanUS and Afghan forces say they have captured a high-ranking al-Qaeda figure in eastern Afghanistan.
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Iran, IraqThe US and UK indicate no softening of their stance on Iran despite calls to use Tehran to help pacify Iraq.
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US President George W Bush is among speakers at a ground-breaking ceremony for a memorial to Martin Luther King.
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Iran, Iraq, SyriaThe US and UK indicate they are ready to work with Syria and Iran to help end the violence in Iraq.
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North Korea, 
South KoreaSouth Korea will not join a US-led initiative to stop and search North Korea ships at sea, officials say.
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American 400m runner Sanya Richards says Justin Gatlin's positive drugs test has tarnished the sport in the USA.
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VietnamA US citizen recently jailed on terrorism charges is deported from Vietnam after being released early.
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Iran, Iraq, SyriaThe White House will consider talking to Iran and Syria about Iraq's future, its chief of staff says.
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Gaza Strip, 
IsraelArab ministers meet to discus the recent Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and the US' veto of a draft UN resolution.
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Iraq, United KingdomHarriet Harman criticises the US military's refusal to send witnesses to inquests of British troops killed in Iraq.
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IsraelThe US blocks a draft UN resolution condemning an Israeli attack that killed 18 Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
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IraqThe prime minister is to give evidence to a US task force looking at policy in Iraq, sparking a row.
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US President George W Bush praises US troops as his nation's "finest citizens" in a Veterans Day speech.
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Oscar-winning US actor Jack Palance, who starred in Shane and City Slickers, has died aged 87.
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GermanyEx-US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld may face criminal charges in Germany over alleged prisoner abuses.
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The White House vows to seek confirmation of US envoy to the UN, John Bolton, in the Democrat-held Senate.
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IraqUS military leaders are set to recommend changes in strategy on Iraq, America's top military officer says.
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IraqA statement purportedly from the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq hails the Republicans' losses in US mid-term polls.
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VietnamThree Americans and four Vietnamese are jailed for 15 months after Vietnam accuses them of terrorism.
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Democrats celebrate after being confirmed as the majority party in both houses of the US Congress.
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Democrats gain the final seat in the battle for the US Senate, sealing their victory in both houses of Congress.
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MexicoMexican President-elect Felipe Calderon tells US President Bush of his concerns over a planned border fence.
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US President George W Bush reaches out to Democrats, as they look set to take control of both houses of Congress.
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The final US Senate seat is set to go to the Democrats, AP reports, as defence chief Donald Rumsfeld steps down.
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Man Utd are negotiating a two-week trial for American teenager Freddy Adu, contrary to an earlier statement from the club.
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RussiaRussia's Supreme Court overturns the acquittal of three men over the murder of US journalist Paul Klebnikov.
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IraqCorruption within the Iraqi government is costing the country billions of dollars, a US official says.
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India, 
PakistanNewspapers in India and Pakistan react cautiously to the results of the US mid-term polls.
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is standing down, following Republican election losses amid anger over Iraq.
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Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo is given a life sentence, adding to an existing one, for six killings in a 2002.
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US shares close at record highs despite concerns about the impact of a Democratic mid-term election win.
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All eyes are on the state of Virginia which will decide the balance of power in the US Senate.
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The US mid-term polls produce high-profile winners and losers for both Democrats and Republicans.
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US Democrats win the House of Representatives in mid-term polls, but the Senate race is neck-and-neck.
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University of Miami football star Bryan Pata has been shot and killed at his apartment complex on Tuesday night.
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Projected results show the Democrats taking at least three key Senate seats in the US mid-term elections.
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Millions of US voters take part in mid-term elections for Congress, seen as a key test for the Bush administration.
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Everything you need to know about the latest developments in this year's US mid-term elections.
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United KingdomBriton Dhiren Barot is given a life sentence for planning carnage on a "colossal scale" in the UK and US.
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Everything you need to know about the latest developments in this year's US mid-term elections.
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BrazilFamilies of some of the victims of Brazil's worst air disaster are suing two US firms for gross negligence.
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Thousands of Republican and Democrat activists make final appeals to US voters on the eve of the mid-term elections.
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FranceUS author Jonathan Littell wins France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, with his bestseller Les Bienveillantes.
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Everything you need to know about the latest developments in this year's US mid-term elections.
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Disgraced US evangelical leader Ted Haggard confesses that he is guilty of "sexual immorality".
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US evangelical Ted Haggard is sacked by his church after being found guilty of "sexually immoral conduct".
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US bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori takes office as the first female leader of an Anglican Church anywhere.
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IranIranian students hold a rowdy rally on the anniversary of the hostage-taking of the American embassy in 1979.
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IraqThe US military reverses plans to redeploy to Iraq a dog handler convicted of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
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US evangelical Ted Haggard, who quit amid gay sex claims, admits he bought drugs and received a massage.
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IraqThe US closes a government website that posted Iraqi material said to detail nuclear bomb-making.
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IraqPolice find 83 bodies around Baghdad, as security is tightened ahead of a verdict in Saddam Hussein's trial.
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NigeriaUS diplomats in Nigeria warn that a militant group is planning a new wave of attacks in the oil-rich Delta.
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US evangelical Ted Haggard steps down after being accused of paying for sex with a man, claims he denies.
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IraqThe US official audit agency that has investigated corruption in the efforts to rebuild Iraq is to be closed down.
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Everything you need to know about the latest developments in this year's US mid-term elections.
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A work by Jackson Pollock sells for a record price of about $140m (£73m), according to a US newspaper.
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IraqUS firm Bechtel, involved for three years in Iraq's reconstruction, pulls out amid worsening security.
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A 36-year-old man is to be charged with murder over a California blaze which killed five firefighters, officials say.
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Lebanon, SyriaSyria and Hezbollah deny US claims they are plotting to topple the Lebanese government with Iran's help.
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SomaliaThe US issues a warning to its citizens in East Africa over the threat of terror attacks by Somali extremists.
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Everything you need to know about the latest developments in this year's US mid-term elections.
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US labour productivity slowed to a halt over the summer, while labour costs hit a 24-year high, official data shows.
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IranIran's ex-president criticises US Middle East policy, calling the idea of exporting democracy "a great joke".
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Nigeria, United KingdomOne British and one US oil worker are kidnapped from a ship off the coast of Nigeria.
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MalaysiaA Malaysian newspaper editor is to resign amid claims that he plagiarised the work of a US journalist.
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William Styron, whose Holocaust novel Sophie's Choice became a film and an opera, has died, aged 81.
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EthiopiaAn Ethiopian man is jailed for genital mutilation of his daughter, in the first such case in the United States.
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LebanonThe White House says it has "mounting evidence" of a plan to try to bring down the Lebanese government.
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Everything you need to know about the latest developments in this year's US mid-term elections.
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EthiopiaEthiopia is locked into a vicious downward spiral of aid dependency, a US-based crop monitoring agency warns.
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United KingdomUK and US forces continue to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings of a cancer risk, the BBC finds.
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Australia, 
FijiThe US and Australia voice fears of a coup in Fiji, as tensions mount between the military and the government.
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CubaA sports agent and four other people are charged with smuggling Cuban baseball players into the US.
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China, North KoreaThe US president thanks China for its role in persuading North Korea to return to talks about its nuclear programme.
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